Business Transformation & Financial Reporting VP

Barclays•Wilmington, DE

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Join Barclays as a Business Transformation & Financial Reporting VP at Barclays, where you'll have the chance to lead the delivery of high‑quality financial data, reporting, and performance insights that directly support our US Consumer Bank leadership. You’ll partner cross‑functionally with Finance, Impairment, Business, and Technology teams to ensure that datasets, allocation methodologies, and reporting outputs are accurate, timely, and strategically aligned to business needs. You will drive modernization across our reporting ecosystem by advancing automation, improving processes, and contributing to our broader Finance transformation agenda. In this role, you’ll provide critical analysis on the performance of our Cards, Consumer Lending, and Deposits portfolio, helping senior management understand key drivers, emerging risks, and new opportunities. You’ll be joining a highly visible team where your expertise will shape decision‑making and influence the future of financial reporting across the US Consumer Bank.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or Engineering, with strong knowledge of banking industry financial architecture and Management Information (MI) tools.
Hands‑on proficiency with data, analytics, and reporting technologies, including Python, SAS, Essbase, Tableau, Alteryx, Power BI, and VBA
Ability to operate autonomously, proactively drive solutions, present complex insights clearly, and collaborate effectively across Finance, Business, and Technology functions.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree complemented by a minor in Data Analytics or Computer Science, with preference for candidates holding relevant certifications (Lean, Six Sigma, PMP).
Progressive experience across Finance, MIS, or Business Transformation, with deep exposure to Management Information (MI), financial reporting, and large‑scale change initiatives within a banking or consumer‑finance environment.
Proficiency with MI and data visualization platforms, including Tableau, Power BI, SQL and Oracle and automated reporting/analytics tools, with the ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

To develop business capabilities for Finance through key stages of functional design, data, end-to-end-process and controls, delivery, and functional testing.
Functional Design: leveraging best practice concepts, and in collaboration with Line SMEs, support options analysis and recommendations as part of decision making.
Data Analysis/Modelling/Governance: design conceptual data model underpinning all phases of the processes, and governance requirements in accordance with GDMS standards and principles.
End-to-End Process & Controls - development of target process and controls design/documentation and operational runbooks and aligning these components with organisational and role/service model design definitions.
Delivery/Implementation Support: update design/functional requirements throughout the development cycle, and resolve RAIDS related to functional requirements and business processes. Project management for change programmes that have limited technology investment.
Functional Testing: develop scripts and data to test alignment to requirement definitions, ahead of user testing cycles.
To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.